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Pumpkin gnocchi for Florence the pasta addict! It’s always a battle to keep inspiration when cooking for your little one. It is easy to give them the same food daily because you know they will eat it and stick with their "routine".
Florence pretty much has pasta for dinner every evening I don't mind because I can play around with hiding vegetables in the sauce. Today I am feeling adventurous and found a gorgeous recipe for pumpkin gnocchi-Florence loved it! Click here for the recipe 'Click here'

Pumpkin gnocchi

Method:
Preheat the oven to 180C. Prick the potatoes and sweet potato.
Place on a large baking tray together with the wedges of pumpkin . If using butternut squash instead of pumpkin use half a medium butternut squash with the seeds and fibre removed and place skin side down. Melt the knob of butter and brush the flesh of the pumpkin or butternut squash with the melted butter. Put the baking tray in the oven and bake for 1 hour or until the vegetables are tender.

Remove from the oven and allow to cool. Cut the potatoes in half and scoop the flesh into a bowl. Scoop the flesh from the pumpkin or butternut squash and put this into the bowl also. Either put the potatoes and pumpkin through a mouli or mash thoroughly and put into a large bowl. Then sift in the flour, add the egg yolk and mix with a wooden spoon. Season with some salt and pepper.

Fit a piping bag with a 2 cm nozzle and fill with some of the mixture. Have ready a floured tray and pipe lengths of gnocchi onto the tray, then cut into 2 cm lengths before poaching in a pan of boiling vegetable stock. Alternatively, have ready a pan of boiling vegetable stock on the stove. Squeeze the mixture through the tip of the piping bag and cut into 3 cm lengths so that the pieces drop into the pan. Cook in the stock for about a minute. The gnocchi are cooked when they float to the surface and you should then remove them carefully with a slotted spoon and arrange them on a tray. You will need to cook the gnocchi in about four batches.

To make the butter and sage sauce. Heat the oil and saite the onion for 3 to 4 minutes until softened but not coloured. Add the sage and sauté for half a minute. Stir in the butter until melted, then remove from the heat and stir in the lemon zest. Season to taste with salt and pepper.